Quote Originally Posted by John Thomas View Post
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I'm not sure morality derives purely from the Church. Its the idea of a law which protects the group perhaps at the expense of an individuals freedom

But some things like killing someone just seems wrong whether imposed by a law or not...
I was specifically thinking about sexual morality. Murder and theft, for example, do seem wrong; though you could say that we accept this from the Ten Commandments. There are occasional 'primitive' societies which seem to think that killing people (and then eating them) is normal.